Robot voice - How to?

[Mountainmirrors]

Hi -

Does anyone know how to create the famous 70's "Robot Voice" like in ELO's "Mr. Blue Sky"?

Ozzy also uses it in "Over the Mountain" ("III'mm Freee").

Any reasonable facsimile will be great! Thanks!

[willovercome]

buy a 70's robot.

no i don't know how, i just wanted to be the first to post a smart ass answer.

[subtractor]

look up "vocoder"...

[Mountainmirrors]

I've got that in CEP. Never realized what it does.

Looked in "help" and it does exactly that.

Mucho thanks!

[Jblount]

What about this.

[sk8ingsnowman]

Yes a vocoder is what you need.

You just use an import source most people use a keyboard but other things produce some fun results as well.

check this out. This place rocks.

http://keyboardmuseum.com/v_teach/vocoder.html

[tanlith]

Originally posted by Mountainmirrors
Hi -

Does anyone know how to create the famous 70's "Robot Voice" like in ELO's "Mr. Blue Sky"?

Ozzy also uses it in "Over the Mountain" ("III'mm Freee").

Any reasonable facsimile will be great! Thanks!

Oh COOL!

A fellow ELO Fan!!!!

*high fives Mountainmirrors*

- Tanlith -

[tanlith]

Originally posted by sk8ingsnowman
Yes a vocoder is what you need.

You just use an import source most people use a keyboard but other things produce some fun results as well.

check this out. This place rocks.

http://keyboardmuseum.com/v_teach/vocoder.html

Hey that's a cool site I played around there for like 10min hehehe

- Tanlith -

Hey... anyone happen to know why the signiture files don't seem to work?

[Mountainmirrors]

ELO rules...


*high five*





http://www.mountainmirrors.com

[Speedy VonTrapp]

Are you looking for live sound, too?

I have the Digitech Vocal 300, and it's awesome. It's got a robot setting built right in, and you can mess with it to make it sound like whatever you want, and save the settings. It works just like their guitar pedals, so you can switch settings during songs with ease.

It's $200. I've had mine since just after it came out, and it's still held its pricetag. It works great. Plus, it's not just a robot voice, it's got any effects you could think of. The expression pedal lets you assign certain parameters to play with real-time, so you can adjust a delay, or volume, or whatever you want real-time, live while you jam.

It's awesome.

There's a $300 version out now, too with USB hookups being the only difference, for use with recording. Although, you can just use the XLR out to record with, too.

Worth looking at, at the very least, if you want to have effect like that live.

[tanlith]

Hey... come to think about it I used to have a set of schematics around here somewhere on how to make a cheap mouth/vox for the guitar... remember those? Nazereth used one in "Hair Of The Dog"

I'ma go look for dose plans... me thinks I'll be firing up the old soldering iron soon

- Tanlith -

[Chris Hillman]

Just wanted to say that "Mr. Blue Sky" is a great song. Sorry for not contributing any technical advice.

[Seanmorse79]

If you're talking about making a "talk box", you might wanna try one out first before you spend a bunch of time with the ol' soldering iron. Those things can give you a monster headache and rattle your fillings out. Remember, Peter Frampton had lots of drugs (and probably dentures)

[Mountainmirrors]

Nahh... I had a talk box for a week and hocked it on Ebay.

[meriphew]

There are lots of synths that have built in vocoders, and there are also stand alone units (like the Electrix Warp Factory) that can provide this effect.

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[SerenityThen]

This robot voice tip won't cost you dime!

I know this summer has been hot and you have been using that fan to cool down with. Well, get right up close to that same fan and start talking. WOW!!! It works great.

If you still have questions about this technique, rent "Tommyboy" with Chris Farley/David Spade.

Enjoy!

[Jblount]

"Lu, lu, lule I am your father"

[SPINSTERWUN]

You should also check out

Orange Vocoder, by Prosoniq

It can be used as a stand-alone or as a VST.

[SPINSTERWUN]

This is their home site.

http://www.prosoniq.com/

[Cheb Abdou]

I heard the examples given on the site linked above. But how do you get that different kind of robotic sound that band like Zapp & Roger use if you know what i mean (also the sound used on "California Love" by Tupac Shakur)?

[Freeform]

Thats a vocoder Cheb.

[Chrisjob]

California Love was Heil talk box-

The guy who sang the hook, Roger Troutman, has twins, a son and a daughter, whom I went to junior high with. The single was released at the end of my 7th grade year, and his son told me the talk box is how he processes all his vocal effects

Listen to Trouman's band, The Zapp, for loads more instances.

Unfortunately, Roger Troutman was killed by his brother Larry about 3 years ago

[mekkab]

Originally posted by SerenityThen
This robot voice tip won't cost you dime!

I know this summer has been hot and you have been using that fan to cool down with. Well, get right up close to that same fan and start talking. WOW!!! It works great.

If you still have questions about this technique, rent "Tommyboy" with Chris Farley/David Spade.

Enjoy!

Dewd, I used to do that ALL the time!
It works best with a big 'ol box fan- the bigger the better.

Hmmm, I'll try it tonight with my dinky 10 little oscillating fan...